X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["516" "Wed" "26" "January" "1994" "15:41:19" "GMT" "Sebastian Rahtz" "spqr@FTP.TEX.AC.UK" "<199401261553.AA08568@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de>" "15" "Re: class defaults" "^Date:" nil nil "1" "1994012615:41:19" "class defaults" (number " " mark " Sebastian Rahtz Jan 26 15/516 " thread-indent "\"Re: class defaults\"\n") "<9401261520.AA08317@ftp.tex.ac.uk>"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA09875; Wed, 26 Jan 94 16:53:43 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA27717; Wed, 26 Jan 94 16:53:39 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA08568 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Wed, 26 Jan 1994 16:53:37 +0100 Message-Id: <199401261553.AA08568@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3235; Wed, 26 Jan 94 16:53:38 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3234; Wed, 26 Jan 1994 16:53:38 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 0200; Wed, 26 Jan 1994 16:53:18 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <9401261520.AA08317@ftp.tex.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 26 Jan 1994 15:41:19 GMT From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: class defaults Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1310 Michael Downes writes: > > An international documentclass like `article', if it were newborn today, > should probably use by default an international paper size, > international font encoding, ... and international language! I guess > this means A4 paper, T1 fonts, and Esperanto :-) > since we are all being verbose, why do we default teh paper size anyway? why dont we *all* have to specify the paper explicitly? every fule know that international language is Latin infandum est CMR usare classical rahtz